Our Lore - Women In History

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In 2007 Monica H. Green, a historian of medieval women’s medicine, discovered multiple overlaps in all four texts that mention Trota’s work, putting an end to the false narrative that “Trotula” was written by men.

Look through our lens and you will see how much women have been erased from the picture.

Trota authored medical texts on women’s medicine that were used for centuries after they were published.

Over that time, her name was erased from the text, as author, by each generation of male editors.

"And as any intelligent person knows what I am the world’s first Co Flyer. Man or woman....I am, and know it, the Most Known Colored person (woman alive) (other than the Jazz singers)" Bessie Coleman 1926

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Following a crash she sent the following telegram from her hospital bed to friends, “TELL THEM ALL THAT AS SOON AS I CAN WALK I’M GOING TO FLY! AND MY FAITH IN AVIATION AND THE USEFUL OF IT WILL SERVE IN FULFILLING THE DESTINY OF MY PEOPLE ISN’T SHAKEN AT ALL.”

Despite the lack of resources, cruelty and barriers put in place throughout her life, she created success for herself through her intelligence, assertiveness and ambition.

Bessie stood strong against white supremacy and refused to fly any event that did not allow African americans entry. In an era where racist mobs violently threatened lives, she continuously advocated for education and inclusion.

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She toured Europe and the US, returning to Chicago in 1922 as "Queen Bess; Daredevil Aviatrix". She began inspiring women and girls around the world with her notoriously dangerous air shows as a stunt pilot.

She then spent a further two months completing advanced courses in France and Germany.

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1920 aged 27, undeterred by rejection from aviation schools in america due to her race/gender, she learnt french and was accepted into Caudron Brothers School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France.

1921 Bessie Coleman was the first american of any race/gender to get an international pilot’s license.

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She created a new (more intelligent) approach to developing drugs.

She developed treatments for childhood leukaemia, Epstein-Barr, chickenpox and shingles. Organ transplants became possible thanks to her.

It was a new era of antiviral therapies; led by this absolute Queen.

Gertrude Elion receives her Nobel Prize, 1988.

“What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get”.

Get your flowers Gertrude. 👏

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Biochemist & Pharmacologist Gertrude Elion was born.

“In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t”.

In 1988 she won a Nobel Prize for development of the first chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.

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Some yap guy was big resentful of her reputation as a wise genius and launched a smear campaign.

This resulted in a group of men dragging her to a church, where they stripped and brutally murdered her with roof tiles, before pieces of her were dragged through the town and set on fire.

unhinged.

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Hypatia, the Alexandrian Painting

By Maria Kalatzi
Greece

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Hypatia
355 CE - 415 CE

Ancient Alexandria’s Greatest Female Scholar

In her time, the world’s leading Mathematician & Astronomer and a powerful symbol for intellectual endeavour in the face of ignorance.

Her public lectures drew crowds and she invented a new version of the hydrometer.